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• U.S. farmers profit little from high rice prices
The country, also known as Burma, had produced enough to feed itself, and was expected to export up to 600,000 tons of rice to neighbors including Sri Lanka and Bangladesh this year.
• Boat carrying cyclone aid sinks
The scenes are the same across the delta, the former “Rice Bowl of Asia” where as many as 100,000 people are feared dead in the worst cyclone to hit the continent since 1991, when 143,000 people died in neighboring Bangladesh.
• Cindy McCain ‘shocked, appalled’ about Myanmar
They might say that she’s the mother of their four children, including two sons in the military and a daughter adopted from Bangladesh. Some will mention that she once confessed to being addicted to prescription painkillers.
• Dearer food unleashes silent tsunami, U.N. says
Bangladesh said on Wednesday it had banned exports of non-aromatic rice for six months to secure domestic supplies. Export bans by India and Vietnam, in addition to dwindling world stocks, have helped rice prices in Asia to treble this year ...
• Agency warns of 'silent tsunami' of hunger
Unrest over the food crisis has led to deaths in Cameroon and Haiti, cost Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis his job, and caused hungry textile workers to clash with police in Bangladesh. 'Worst period of our life' Former U.N. Secretary ...

See also:

• Regional: Asia: Regions: Bengal  (22)
• Regional: Asia: Regions: South Asia  (48)
• World: Bangla  (20)

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